Jordan v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Pottawatomie county of having unlawful possession of one and one-half gallons of whisky, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $500 and confinement in the county jail for a period of five months.

The evidence of the state was that the officers having a search warrant searched the premises of the defendant; that one officer went into the room where defend ant and his wife were, and that defendant ran out the hack door with a quart jar of whisky in his hand and broke the same on a stone walk outside; the…